Graffiti goddess dress
1999 {spring-summer 1999}
- Medium
- rayon (jersey)
- Measurements
- 140.0 cm (centre back) 23.0 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- Italy
- Inscription
- label, centre back, woven in green on black acetate: Jean Paul / GAULTIER / FEMME / MADE IN ITALY
- Accession Number
- 2016.182
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Carla Zampatti Foundation, 2016
© Jean Paul Gaultier
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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For Gaultier the possibilities of trompe l’oeil and his fascination with skin guide his romantic and fetishist designs. Graffiti goddess dress employs trompe l’oeil to create the impression of a Classical form. Gaultier references Classical art and art history with this work, which has a subversive edge with the addition of the graffiti text ‘JPG’ and ‘safe sex’ etched into a photographed image of the statue.